Sociology - Humanities : Romanticism and its Aims

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Romanticism and its Aims
Romanticism was a movement in art, literature, music, intellect and painting which took
place during the latter half of the 19th century. Romanticism is characterized with individualism
and emotions in which focus and emphasis are laid on elevation of nature and past, The medieval
period of artistic manifestations were preferred over the classical, which was symbolic and more
of a reaction to industrial revolution, modernity, Age of Enlightenment and scientific
rationalization of the nature.
The artists highlighted that understanding emotions were equally important like paying
attention to order and reason. Thus, the Romantics engaged in celebrating intuition and
imagination in their art, literature, music and paintings as they searched for individual liberty and
rights (Honour, 2018). Romanticism was powerful as a movement and laid foundations to
several other movements which came into prominence throughout the twentieth century which
had its basis on the subjective and creative powers of the artists. The voices of the Romantic
practitioners can be found to be reverberating through all genres which include music, art,
literature, poetry as well as architecture as romantics manifested their artistic fervor.
The romantics, after the French revolution, promoted justice as they embraced freedom
through their art forms. The romantic painters chose to depict social and current events in order
to project injustices of the society. Thus, the artists laid emphasis on exploring the psychological
and emotional moods. In the words of Charles Baudelaire, Romanticism is rooted in the subject
and not the absolute truth. It concerns what is felt about the subject and the way it is rather
perceived by the artists. While some Romantic artists paid attention to nature and landscapes to
depict them in a far respectful manner, others tended to focus on human nature and the sublime,
which awakened terror in the minds of the readers and audiences. Romantic artists thus, created